Historical Events
- Mar 1 Yellowstone becomes the world's 1st national park
Louis Riel's Exile
Mar 2 Louis Riel goes into voluntary exile in St. Paul, Minnesota
Train Brake Patented
Mar 5 American engineer George Westinghouse patents triple air brake for trains
- Mar 7 -8°F (-22°C) in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 11 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain
- Mar 11 The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture
- Mar 16 1st English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers, 1-0; Morton Betts scores winner
- Mar 21 34th Grand National: John Page wins his second GN aboard 20/1 shot Casse Tete
- Mar 22 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
- Mar 26 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
- Mar 26 Thomas J. Martin, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Willie Keeler, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (highest career AB-per-strikeout ratio in MLB history; NL batting champion 1897, 98 Baltimore Orioles), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1923)
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Mar 7 Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands
- Mar 7 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, Russian composer (Rhapsodie hébraïque; Prince Lake), and teacher, born in Taganrog, Russia (d. 1964)
- Mar 8 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)
- Mar 10 Felix Borowski, British-American composer, educator (Chicago Musical College, 1896-1925), and musicologist (Chicago Symphony, 1908-56), born in Burton-in-Kendal, England (d. 1956)
- Mar 13 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post, born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 1949)
- Mar 17 Douglas Carr, England cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 7 wickets; Kent CCC), born in Cranbrook, England (d. 1950)
- Mar 17 Willie Quaife, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC, Warwickshire CCC), born in Newhaven, England (d. 1951)
- Mar 19 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), born in Warsaw (d. 1918)
- Mar 20 Bernhard Seklas, German pianist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue thought to be the first jazz instructor, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (d. 1934)
- Mar 20 Karin Michaelis, Danish writer (The Dangerous Age), born in Randers, Denmark (d. 1950)
Michael Joseph Savage (1872-1940)
Mar 23 Australian-born New Zealand politician and first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935-40), born in Tatong, Australia
- Mar 25 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina), born in the Province of Venice (d. 1933)
- Mar 28 Jose Sanjurjo, Spanish general (Morocco) and high director, born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1936)
- Mar 30 Sergey Vasilenko, Russian composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1956)
- Mar 31 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian arts patron and ballet impresario (founder of the Imperial Ballet and Ballets Russes), born in Gruzino Novgorod, Russia (d. 1929)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
- Mar 8 Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter, dies at 56
- Mar 10 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician and revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
- Mar 12 Zeng Guofan, Chinese statesman, military general and Confucian scholar of the late Qing dynasty, dies at 60
- Mar 28 Humphrey Marshall, American politician and Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dies at 60
- Mar 30 John Morrison Oliver, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), and lawyer, dies at 43
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